O Cuil Nimloth Lyrics

As we lay among your roots

We'll whisper the tale of heroes gallant

Who watered your stones and earth with their blood and their tears

And who stood tall to keep you alive through the years

O Cuil Nimloth

We laud you and pray you listen

For the many you made

Hope they may lend you their ears

Drowned in the wells of uncertainty,

He took life from man, 'fore he was one.

O the moon, she did beckon, like a sailor to sea

But he's weighed by the stones of what he had done

Lost in the words written on pages

Raised in the shadow of a taciturn father

He searches for clues that were left through the ages

But he's doomed from the start, like a lamb to the slaughter

O Cuil Nimloth, please lend us your ears

Your children beseech you, your reach is so wide

O Cuil Nimloth, we'll atone for the years

Just wrap limbs round our shoulders and stay by our side

Through the pools that forgive

Through the timbers of old

Four souls now claw and fight to live

Through dragons of fire and poison and gold

Free though she be, still lost in the wild

She took many forms, from ally to beast

A lass now of age, though never a child

Drawn from the cold to the oceans far east

She who bled first, kin with heart golden

Gnasher of teeth, and biter of words

Her grave marks the start of a journey beholden

To a story ending in oak and swords

O Cuil Nimloth, please lend us your ears

Your children beseech you, your reach is so wide

O Cuil Nimloth, send us your heroes

Wrap limbs round their shoulders and stay by their side

Through the sorrow and loss

Through the blooms of the summer

Treading far and wide over weeds and moss

To the ever-steady beat of a drummer

Grander in heart and smaller in size

The shine of youth now gone from her eyes

Freckled of face and fletching on her fingers

The memory of home in her mind still lingers.

It all ends, in truth, the price of unknown worth

From the bone and the flesh we rend from the earth

A sky still blue, unburned even now

So we hang ribbons and bells, a charm on each bow

O Cuil Nimloth, please lend us your ears

Your children beseech you, their past set aside

O Cuil Nimloth, please send us your heroes

Wrap limbs round their shoulders and return to their side

O Cuil Nimloth, you lend us your ears

Your children beseech you, they look up with pride

O Cuil Nimloth, you have sent us your heroes

They wrapped limbs round our shoulders and fought by our side